LEADER 04550nam 2200709 a 450 001 9910810098803321 005 20230803021129.0 010 $a3-11-048805-1 010 $a3-11-030499-6 024 7 $a10.1515/9783110304992 035 $a(CKB)2550000001096954 035 $a(OCoLC)852656156 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10728932 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000916689 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11510928 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000916689 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10877878 035 $a(PQKB)10040414 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1164722 035 $a(DE-B1597)206820 035 $a(OCoLC)851970598 035 $a(OCoLC)853251319 035 $a(DE-B1597)9783110304992 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1164722 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10728932 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL503488 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001096954 100 $a20130415d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aClassifier structures in Mandarin Chinese$b[electronic resource] /$fby Niina Ning Zhang 210 $aBerlin $cDe Gruyter Mouton, is a Division of Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co, KG$d2013 215 $a1 online resource (331 p.) 225 0 $aTrends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] ;$v263 225 0$aTrends in linguistics.$pStudies and monographs,$x1861-4302 ;$v263 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a3-11-030374-4 311 $a1-299-72237-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and indexes. 327 $t Frontmatter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tAbbreviations -- $tChapter 1: Introduction -- $tChapter 2: Classifiers and countability -- $tChapter 3: Classifiers and quantifiers -- $tChapter 4: Classifiers and plurality -- $tChapter 5: The syntactic constituency of numeral expressions -- $tChapter 6: The syntactic positions of classifiers -- $tChapter 7: Noun-classifier compounds -- $tChapter 8: Conclusions -- $tReferences -- $tSubject index -- $tLanguage index 330 $aThis monograph addresses fundamental syntactic issues of classifier constructions, based on a thorough study of a typical classifier language, Mandarin Chinese. It shows that the contrast between count and mass is not binary. Instead, there are two independently attested features: Numerability, the ability of a noun to combine with a numeral directly, and Delimitability, the ability of a noun to be modified by a delimitive modifier, such as size, shape, or boundary modifier. Although all nouns in Chinese are non-count nouns, there is still a mass/non-mass contrast, with mass nouns selected by individuating classifiers and non-mass nouns selected by individual classifiers. Some languages have the counterparts of Chinese individuating classifiers only, some languages have the counterparts of Chinese individual classifiers only, and some other languages have no counterpart of either individual or individuating classifiers of Chinese. The book also reports that unit plurality can be expressed by reduplicative classifiers in the language. Moreover, for the constituency of a numeral expression, an individual, individuating, or kind classifier combines with the noun first and then the numeral is integrated; but a partitive or collective classifier, like a measure word, combines with the numeral first, before the noun is integrated into the whole nominal structure. Furthermore, the book identifies the syntactic positions of various uses of classifiers in the language. A classifier is at a functional head position that has a dependency with a numeral, or a position that has a dependency with a generic or existential quantifier, or a position that represents the singular-plural contrast, or a position that licenses a delimitive modifier when the classifier occurs in a compound. 606 $aChinese language$vTextbooks for foreign speakers$xEnglish 606 $aChinese language$xSimplified characters 606 $aMandarin dialects 610 $aClassifier Languages. 610 $aClassifiers. 610 $aMandarin Chinese. 615 0$aChinese language$xEnglish. 615 0$aChinese language$xSimplified characters. 615 0$aMandarin dialects. 676 $a495.15 700 $aZhang$b Niina Ning$0324449 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910810098803321 996 $aClassifier structures in Mandarin Chinese$94091607 997 $aUNINA